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Creating a rebate in wood using the wood planer

Special application using the HL 850 EB planer
Wood rebate
Rebates are often needed for a variety of applications in furniture making and interior finishing. This illustrated guide shows you how to create rebates in wood using the planer and tells you what you need to look out for. It contains detailed explanations of the function of the planing head and how to achieve the right rebate depth.

    Description

    The Festool HL 850 electronic planer can do everything a standard planer can do, from planing wood to a smooth finish to milling off edges, and more besides.
    The superior technical feature of this planer is the planing head mounted on one side. This means that users can plane out rebates in wood to almost any depth. This illustrated guide shows how rebates can be created using the HL 850 planer.

    Tools/accessories

    The following tools and accessories are recommended for use in this application example: For rebating, you need the HL 850 EB-Plus planer. All accessories are included in the scope of delivery.

    Preparation/set-up

    • We recommend the use of a dust extractor with a large container such as the Festool CLEANTEC CTM 36 E. This can be fitted with a pre-separator to collect the chips. In the long run, this is more economical than SELFCLEAN filter bags.

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      Setting the rebate width

    • Set the desired rebate depth. To do this, measure the exact distance from the planer foot to the rebate depth stop. Place the tool on its side so that the rebate depth stop faces upwards; this will enable you to plane a precise rebate in the wood.

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      Setting the rebate depth

    Procedure

    • Set the chip thickness to 1 mm. During the first work step, guide the planer so that the parallel side fence fits precisely along the wood. The first work step is key to ensuring that the rebate is precisely positioned.

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      Guiding the planer

    • From the second work step onwards, the edge of the planer foot is placed against the rebate edge. The parallel side fence is therefore only necessary at the start of planing and can then be removed.

      Ensure that the edge of the planer foot is always guided exactly along the rebate edge.

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      Placing the planer foot edge on the rebate edge

    • When the rebate depth stop is against the workpiece, the set rebate depth has been reached.

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      Placing the rebate depth stop on the workpiece

    • Finished rebate.

      If the rebate depth stop is not used, the rebate can be planed as deep as you choose.

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      Finished rebate

    1. Our illustrated guides and work results are documented working steps that we have performed in practice. They are individual examples and do not guarantee or promise that users will obtain the same results. The results will depend on the user's experience and skill, as well as the material being used. Illustrated guides do not replace any Festool operating manuals and/or safety instructions. Liability for ensuring that the information, instructions and applications are free from content defects and defects of title, in particular with regard to the absence of defects, correctness, freedom from third party intellectual property rights and copyrights, completeness and fitness for purpose, is excluded. Claims for damages made by the user, regardless of their legal basis, are excluded. These liability exclusions are not applicable if the damage was intentional or caused by gross negligence, or in cases of statutory liability.

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